Kuomintang Sun

Kuomintang Sun was the liberal wing of the Kuomintang political party in China. Named for its leader, Sun Yat-sen, Kuomintang Sun opposed Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing faction of the Kuomintang, and Sun Yat-sen defined the minsheng principle of the KMT as socialism and communism. Under Sun, the KMT was radical with its pro-Soviet policies, and it persecuted merchants for being counterrevolutionaries and reactionaries. Many KMT leaders were trained at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union during the 1920s, and the KMT would be a major liberal party until Sun's death in 1925 and the downfall of the Sun faction in 1927.